An anti-racism pledge at the University of Houston Downtown has been removed from the school's English Department website following backlash from a professor.
Downtown has removed an anti-racism pledge from its English Department website that critics have claimed is a form of compelled speech.
"We are aware that we are complicit in systems of oppression through our individual and collective actions," the statement continued."We reject white supremacy and its ideologies of racism, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism." The statement, which has been scrubbed from the website as of Monday, also claims that faculty"uphold social justice" in their lives and work as educators and"embraceAdam Ellwanger, a UHD professor in the department, had openly criticized the statement and claimed"emotional blackmail" from"activist academics" had pushed most public universities to publish a statement promising to abide by a"radical leftist agenda.
A helicopter hovers above the Houston skyline as sunlight breaks through storm clouds in Texas, U.S. August 29, 2017.
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